When did you hit peak SJW and why? - Get off the woke train and see through the bullshit that is identity politics!

[Notgoodwithusernames]

I am a liberal always have been and likely always will be. I was never a full blown sjw but I didn't fully break away until after the election of Trump when it became clear to me that the progressive stack and intersectionality are unsustainable.

 

[Maxxicus Callahan]

I am a liberal always have been and likely always will be. I was never a full blown sjw but I didn't fully break away until after the election of Trump when it became clear to me that the progressive stack and intersectionality are unsustainable.

It really was an impossible all inclusive coalition between Hillary Clinton's feminism and Saudi Arabia, that's kind of like Justin Trudeau in a nutshell. It won't work the left liberal needs to take more risk for something that materially benefits the ordinary person and society in a real way and stop relying on identity politics and virtue, cheap moralization etc.. Without substance its just minor tweaks around the edges at best and a bone to throw here and there. edit (sorry don't mean personally, the major parties). Why must they attempt to appear woke and radical but fundamentally change nothing, can't end the drug war or do much of consequence to actually help poor and marginalized people.

 

[Dubu Kimchi]

For me it was the introduction of 'Latinx' It continues to strike me as nothing more than blatant cultural imperialism in an actual sense. The native words are 'offensive' and inadequate, so a foreign word is imposed. Latinx in supposed to be the gender neutral word, but it already exists in Spanish, but people refuse to use the native word. They must impose their culture on the other.

 

[You Bastard Guy]

About 24 hours after 9/11. I was pretty apolitical before that.

Don’t let them revise history by saying that America “squandered” the good will and sympathy they got from 9/11. It took less than 24 hours before every web board I was on filled up with “ha ha America deserved it because FUCK YOU AUTHORITY FIGURES” posts.

 

[Fish Fudge]

Probably just realising we can't actually have an honest conversation about so many topics anymore, and that I'm supposed to somehow swallow the contradictions.

The whole "black people can't be racist" line was probably an eye-opener that broke the script for me. That, and "trans women are women".

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Before TDS took off, I almost took identity politics seriously. I was worried about things like "sexualization" and "cultural appropriation". But ever since TDS, I've come to see the cult of woke as it is: a manipulative lying tyrannical cult that sees the world through "problem glasses", tries to lump people as "communities" of "marginalized groups" or "oppressors", and is fairly contrary to human nature.

2020 and the recent opposition to individualism as "white supremacy" has confirmed that even more.

 

[MugolEx]

I never liked the progressive ideology to begin with. I knew early on that these types of people will only get worse as they become more emboldened, seeing how vapid it really was when I was in high school. It seemed so bizarre that the same people who completely loathed religion, (Christianity) also held their beliefs with religious fervor to the point of belligerent behavior. All the people who followed this mindset preached but never practice, much like what they criticized about religion.

 

[Dustlord]

For me, I had begun defending things that I simply don't agree with in the name of protecting the feelings of people I didn't really care about in the first place. In other words, I had begun virtue signaling.

That isn't sustainable for anyone that isn't a total social parasite, so I pretty quickly backed down and began considering alternatives.

 

[JohnLenin]

When I started to realize that black americans would get a pass for being extremely racist and they still do.
Even today with the stop asian hate thing going on currently they have people white knighting for them. Instead of addressing the current problem they bring up events that happened around a hundred years ago as proof of Asian hate and pinning it on other groups, for example the Torreón massacre being brought up.
So what about all those videos of them instigating fights, beating on little old asian grannies and store clerks? Fake. Doctored images, photoshop and cgi, ect.
It's so fucking bad, these people literally have it ingrained into their heads that black people can't be racist that they keep continuously making excuses for them.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

It seemed so bizarre that the same people who completely loathed religion, (Christianity) also held their beliefs with religious fervor to the point of belligerent behavior.

I think people have a need for religion, and Westerners (and Middle Easterners) can have a need for fervent religion. So with religion removed by modern "society", something has to fill that emptiness, be it consumerism, identity politics, or atheism as a religion. It's like nature abhorring a vacuum.

 

[Alex Hogendorp]

The closest I've been to an SJW was around 2013 - 2015 when my school started teaching critical race theory when I was 14 and ended up buying into all their falsehoods. It was only until 2016 when I realized about the groups known as Social Justice Warriors who get offended by everything and wanted to ruin internet and society as a whole and then I took a gander at all the things that represent them and was interested on gathering information from the opposition to these people. Now I'm pretty much the antithesis of these losers and learned their roots and how they came to be.

 

[Dustlord]

I think people have a need for religion, and Westerners (and Middle Easterners) can have a need for fervent religion. So with religion removed by modern "society", something has to fill that emptiness, be it consumerism, identity politics, or atheism as a religion. It's like nature abhorring a vacuum.

Spoiler: Schizoposting

That's exactly what it is. Many people enjoy the experience of being in a religion, and in absence of religion, people will seek out similar behavioral patterns. So they push to secularize holidays, create irreligious rituals, bond over shared consumption patterns and debate ideology instead of theology.

 

[Kornula]

I would, except you'd probably shoot me on sight as one of those leftists.

You are one of those insane lefties....

 

[Isaac Clarke]

When I finally realized they only cared about using me as a mouth-piece for their rainbow-painted fascism. The wokescolds hate their enemies more than than they love the groups they're supposedly fighting for. Fuck 'em.

 

[Kornula]

I just don’t talk about politics at work and I avoid social media. So it’s not that hard to avoid social justice.

When I finally realized they only cared about using me as a mouth-piece for their rainbow-painted fascism. The wokescolds hate their enemies more than than they love the groups they're supposedly fighting for. Fuck 'em.

I'm gay and native Alaskan.... the liberals (many former friends of mine) hate it when I just say "I support Trump" ...that's all that it takes to send them into a rage ..or completely disown me.

 

[Jason Wynn]

I'm gay and native Alaskan.... the liberals (many former friends of mine) hate it when I just say "I support Trump" ...that's all that it takes to send them into a rage ..or completely disown me.

Just being gay and not liberal was enough for some of my former friends to end their friendship with me. I’m not the biggest Trump fan but because I don’t think he’s Super Mega Turbo Hitler 3000 either that was enough for them. Sucks when you’ve been friends with these people for decades, you think of them like family and they’re ready to throw all that away because you disagree with them on one thing. Leftism really is a cult mentality

 

[Kosher Dill]

I think what tipped me over from seeing (proto-)SJWs as "well-intentioned wooly-headed liberals" to seeing them as a plague was watching communities and personalities online succumb to the rot. For me it was science people who presumably picked up the mind-virus from atheist/skeptic spheres (Atheism+ and so on). Because it was a new phenomenon and people didn't know better yet, you'd still see other scientists chime in and try to debate questionable SJW talking points in good faith, and get a barrel of toxicity dumped on them for their efforts. It was a sorry spectacle.

I also got a really on-the-nose example of the mentality when one guy I followed went through a really nasty divorce and came out the other end a raging SJW, angry at the world and throwing endless buzzwords at the targets of his ire.

 

[Juan's Sombrero]

I hit peak years before this insanity even became a thing. In real time, I witnessed how it came to be years ago, and let me tell you guys, it started out as being pretty minor. The usual "equality" and "gay rights" hoopla.

Long story short, look at the retards and faggots all over social media with pronouns and furry profiles right now. The absolutely insane celebrity worship and consumerism that not even the most corporate right wing could ever stomach before dying from overconsumption. The desperate need for clout that they'd eat actual poisonous substances. Among other things that have already been pointed out in this thread.

 

[Kornula]

Just being gay and not liberal was enough for some of my former friends to end their friendship with me. I’m not the biggest Trump fan but because I don’t think he’s Super Mega Turbo Hitler 3000 either that was enough for them. Sucks when you’ve been friends with these people for decades, you think of them like family and they’re ready to throw all that away because you disagree with them on one thing. Leftism really is a cult mentality

When you call them out on their cult reactions... they turn around and say

"No, you are"

ugh

 

[Lone Outsider]

Properly when I was 17/18, by coincidence I went to MMO champion and saw some dude put up a video from Mister Metukor, that was went I became redpilled and the reason why I have respect for Jim. Prior to that, my mother was always bitching about Political correctness but I didn't understand completely at the time so at least I had good influence/counter balance growing up despite the woke poisoning once the redpill took effect.